Before air can enter the combustion chamber of your engine, it first has to enter the air filter, travel through intake piping or tubing, pass through the throttle body, enter the intake manifold, and finally enter the cylinder head. There are many points along the path of this air flow where the air encounters a heat source. The ambient air temperature within the engine compartment can heat all of the surfaces along this path. This is called heat soak and it robs power from your engine. Most of the power robbing heat soak occurs when the cylinder head heats up the intake manifold.



NextGear Thermoshield Gaskets prevent this heat soak from occurring by insulating the intake against the unwanted heat generated by the cylinder head. NextGear Thermoshield Gaskets are direct replacement parts for your OEM intake manifold gasket. Thermoshield Gaskets increase the power output from your engine by preventing heat soak between the cylinder head and the intake manifold keeping your intake cooler. A cooler intake means denser more oxygen rich air and a better fuel burn resulting in more power.

How do Thermoshield Gaskets work? They maintain a colder air charge all the way to the combustion chamber. Cold air is denser than hot air but has less volume. When cold air is delivered to the combustion chamber, the fuel/air mixture within the chamber contains more oxygen, which means a better burn, and more power.

If you've spent time and money installing a cold air system then you know the value of cold air in the combustion chamber. But if you're not careful, just when the air is hitting the most critical part of the system, unwanted heat soak can undo all the effort you spent getting the air cold. NextGear Thermoshield Gaskets as provide a line of defense against heat soak, and a strong offense for making horsepower.






bascially i will need some pre orders to get this product made for the cobalt
we will make on for each engine type including the supercharged and it will run about 60 bucks but you spend 300 on a cai and then it loses its cool once it hits the intake manifold

http://www.nextgearinc.com/

please visit the site for more info if intrested post here or pm me so i can start getting these made Thanks!!!!!!

 

Interesting.

 

I just dont see how a gasket is going to make air colder....

 

It insulates the block from the intake, reducing the heat soak from the block.

It might not work that well on the Cobalt. The N/A motors use a plastic intake designed to reduce heat soak. The S/C motor would still get heat from the blower, but is cooled, somewhat, by the IC liquid.

 

belive it or not the plastic still abosrbs heat the only problem is for us to produce these the company requires at least 50 to be made so if could get say 10 people here it would be great and these have worked great on cavis and serveal gm cars with plastic intakes

 

I know, that is why I said "reduce heat soak" Nothing is perfect. Even that gasket, will allow the intake manifold to absorb heat

 

thats true as in cai will not always give cold air just helps and thesee gaskets do work we are working on getting a test model (me and probally one more person) and then we will put on dyno to prove they help you put that injen cold air with this gasket you will notice a diference

 

not tryin to **** on your thread, but i really cant see this making a noticeable difference

they dont even have any proof on their site that this works

 

Its A New Product All In Testing I Can Post Dyno Runs If You Need

 

yes please post up your dyno runs... also can we see what it looks like? im interested.

 

i will get the paperwork out and ost the dyno runs plus monday ill try to do a hoq to insatll for you guys

 

Forgive me if I'm wrong but doesn't the head form the top of the combustion chamber? The gasket only covers maybe 40-50% of the surface area...not to mention you have the oil and coolant that is engine temp. flowing all through the head. Just doesn't seem like it would make that much of a difference to me. Not bashing what so ever, just throwing in another angle of looking at it. Plus I thought that was one of the reasons for the change over to aluminum heads....heat disipation. Just curious. It would be cool to see some results.

 

dont get me wrong alot has been done to prervent heat but this sheild really helps ill dyno the cobalt see you can see we have seen gains of up to 7 hp at the wheels but you could probally expect about 2 3 at the wheels for cobalt because you have stuff already done for heat but 2 to 3 at wheels isnt bad just a bitch to install

 

Look again; it's not a head gasket. It's an intake manifold gasket. It serves to Reduce the amount of heat soak from the cylinder head to the intake manifold. This is an attempt to keep the air as cool as possible in route to the combustion chamber.

 

i may be interested someone do some research and find out if these gaskets are legit!

 

My bad. I even read it twice. Makes much more sense now. I could have sworn it said head gasket...oh well...thanks for the correction. Def. curious now let me know what you find out

 

Does anyone have an exploded view of the supercharger where it meets the head? i need to look at something.

 

for 60$ ill buy one
hell someone has to try it. I dont have a CAI on my car yet either so you can see stock gains.

 

don good to see you here im trying to get things going

 

Hmmm..... I can see te theory behind it, but not sure how it would work in practice.

Looking at the pics of your other gaskets it looks like a silicone gasket, which does disapte some heat, I'm just wondering how much.

I would like to see an engine brought to operating temperature and have the temp of the intake manifold at the head taken with and without this product.

Otherwise the 3 HP performance gain could be atributed to the thickness of this gasket acting sort of like a TB spacer so to speak.

 

as soon as we can get test people and get this going we will become a vender here but we need a ss sc person in nashville or surronding area

 

it might work on a car without the liquid heat exchanger sandwiched between the intake mani and head... but with ours there i cant see how it will help, either way hot liquid will be flowing between the two parts keeping things at a steamy temperature in relation to how hot the blower gets

 

there is a simillar intake mannifold gasket from the aftermarket that claims the same heat reduction principal which has netted gains of 5whp i have seen right here in edmonton. so the technology is legit in this application...

 

we are looking into making a 3 peice set for intake manifold throttle body and supercharger we jsut need an ss sc for testing

 

not to be a dic but this wont do anything in a sence of making power